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Jack Iwata Collection

Jack Iwata - A Fashion Show


Published: July 24, 2007 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025

Often times, prisoners at camp would put on musical productions, plays or talent shows. Here, girls at the Tule Lake concentration camp put on a fashion show!
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Description
3 girls on a stage dressed in long dresses. Behind the girls are 2 white cylinders. Behind that is the curtain.

Caption
The Fashion Show.

copy negative

Newell, Calif., c. 1942

(93.102.22)

Gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata

Jack Iwata Collection

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Jack Iwata was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He returned to the United States when he was 16 years old, and attended Whittier College in Whittier, California. Jack began to work with famous ph…
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